>>100714771
He turns into cyborg David Bowie in MGS4 first
Then he gets a hard dicking with flaming 10,000,000 times folded nanomachine steel so he has to get an edgy makeover so he can absorb life-fibers and find out who killed his dad

>>100714771
STEP 1
"kojima make mgs4 even though you don't want to"
"alright"
STEP 2
"Kojima make (another) game with raiden but more actiony)
"alright"
STEP 3
"Kojima we don't know how to make action games this is too hard, our budget is too small, I wish I was at home watching snake's ass help"
"alright"
STEP 4
"We at platinum games are more than willing to help, it probably won't be what you wanted it to be though"
"alright"

>>100714771
He was meant to be a representation of the player that tries to be Solid Snake, to follow his path and learn from him. At the end of MGS2 Kojima basically tells you that you should not (to both Raiden and the Player).

Yet, people wanted more MGS badly so in MGS4 he made him into a distorted and abused child of the war which represent how the player was unable to let go of the series.

>>100714771
if you want the actual lore explanation, he got captured by the patriots between MGS2 and 4, who then proceeded to remove his body from the jaw down and run cyborgification experiments on him

>>100716283
ryuuko, inumuta, and satsuki are the ones with the most distinct parallels to a single character, that is raiden, monsoon, and armstrong respectively
the others are kind of unclear though, nui is somewhere between sam and sundowner, nonon and mistral only really go together because of the gender, gamagoori goes with sundowner only because of the whole I'M FUCKING INVINCIBLE thing, and sanageyama's a pretty solid sam, but he has no reason to doubt his ideals

>>100716387>and sanageyama's a pretty solid sam, but he has no reason to doubt his ideals
Sam didn't really doubt his ideals as much as leave things to fate. He fought Armstrong, saw he was stronger, and joined because he thought he could make a difference in the world rather than by being an aimless vigilante.

A lot more like Monkey than you'd think. Well, except Sam was fucking awesome whereas Monkey sucks ass. At least they both use a sword.